GNU bug report logs - #78952
Bug or feature? intern-soft return non-exists symbol

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lin Sun <sunlin7 <at> hotmail.com>

Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 04:28:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lin Sun <sunlin7 <at> hotmail.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Bug or feature? intern-soft return non-exists symbol
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 04:22:38 +0000

Hi, get confused intern-soft return a symbol which already unbound, 

Here are the lines to make a symbol then makunbound the symbol, but after that the intern-soft still return the symbol:

(setq a-test-variable-unbound-later t)

(intern-soft "a-test-variable-unbound-later")

(makunbound 'a-test-variable-unbound-later)

(boundp 'a-test-variable-unbound-later)

(intern-soft "a-test-variable-unbound-later") ;; why not nil?

It's a feature or a bug? Thanks
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